Use case or problem
I just finished importing a bunch of pictures into a canvas, in order to sort them spatially and add notes, links and comments to them.
Since I still haven’t studied the subject, I don’t know what each image represents, so I wrote a name and a brief description on each pic’s filename, it’s useful info and it appears nicely on top of the pic.
But I was also expecting to be able to fire up the search later, write any text on the filename, hit enter and find the associated picture on the (quite large) canvas.
But of course the search didn’t turn up any results.
Proposed solution
Have the search find text on the filenames that are on the canvas.
Thank you!
What you’re describing makes perfect sense: you’ve added meaningful filenames to your images on the canvas, and naturally you’d expect the search function to pick those up. Right now, though, the search is only indexing text inside notes, comments, or links—not the filenames themselves—so it won’t return results based on those labels.
Your proposed solution is spot‑on: enabling search to include filenames would make it far easier to locate images in a large canvas, especially when you’ve already embedded descriptive info there. It’s a practical feature request that would improve usability without changing how people currently work with notes or tags.
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Right? I’m glad it makes perfect sense for you too. I hope it’s easy to implement.
The only drawback I can think of:
If you rename a new image with a name that was already in use, Obsidian will show that first image, without any warning. But I only found it because I was looking for possible errors, it’s unlikely that it’ll happen.